Making the Past
Prospective Memorialization and the Creation of Myth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21158833 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Barrowclough (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141-152 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Culture in Britain (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1471-4787 • E-ISSN: 1941-8361 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14714787.2014.930305 |
| OpenAlex | W2040200575 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
This article explores how we might use artistic representations to protect future generations from the dangers inherent in the burial of radioactive waste, taking the work of artists Bryan McGovern Wilson and Robert Williams in Cumbria, north-west England, as a case study. Art has been a means of long-range communication since prehistoric times, and may be deliberately deployed to communicate with future generations. Contemplation of Wilson and Williams’s practice invites us to consider the longue durée of hundreds of thousands of years over which radiocarbon waste produced by nuclear power stations has to be stored safely away from humans. Adapting an Annales historical perspective, Cumbria’s archaeological past is interrogated for evidence of how we might construct monuments that communicate the presence of nuclear waste depositories to future generations. This in turn, and prompted by Wilson’s performance works, invites us to consider whether oral tradition and performance might serve better as a warning to future generations
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Contemplation · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Memorialization · Mythology · Nuclear power · Political science · Prehistory · Sociology · Visual arts · Classics · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Law · Philosophy
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| Highly cited | No |
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